Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Studies (EDST)
Her research has focused on the changing work, learning, training and educational policies and practices in the context of (im)migration and transnationalism. Dr. Shan’s work challenges the dominant deficit construct of (im)migrant others by promoting strength-based policies, research and pedagogies. Her research has contributed to the understanding of the roles that (im)migrant men and women professionals play in the transfer, translation and transformation of knowledge and practices across place.
Contributions:
Shan, H. & Walter, P. (forthcoming). Growing everyday multiculturalism: Practice-based learning of Chinese immigrants through community gardens in Canada, Adult Education Quarterly.
Shan. H.(2013). Skill as a relational construct: The hiring practices in the engineering profession in Canada. Work, Employment and Society, 27 (6): 915-931.DOI: 10.1177/0950017012474710
Shan, H. (2013). The disjuncture of learning and recognition: Credential assessment from the standpoint of Chinese immigrant engineers in Canada, European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 4 (2), 189-204.
Guo, S, & Shan, H. (2013). The politics of recognition: Critical analysis of the foreign qualification recognition discourse in Canada. International Journal of Lifelong Education. DOI:10.1080/02601370.2013.778073
Shan, H. (2012). Learning to “Fit in”: The Emotional Work of Chinese Immigrant Engineers in Canada, Journal of Workplace Learning, 24(5): 351-364.
Keywords:
Adult learning and education; Immigration and education; Work, profession, and learning; Knowledge transfer/translation; Everyday multiculturalism; Prior learning recognition; Gender and development; Institutional ethnography.
hongxia.shan@ubc.ca
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